Subj : Re: The universe
To   : Bob Eyer
From : John Wilson
Date : Sun Dec 24 2000 03:44 am

 BE> ...nobody
 BE> made the mistake of supposing that the Big Bang theory ought to
 BE> be attached to the catechism of some religion.

   I make that "mistake" all the time :-)
                                         
   The issues in
 BE> this theory are purely scientific and mathematical in nature; and
 BE> the mathematical side of it actually prohibits any interpretation
 BE> suggesting that the Big Bang itself had a cause.

   Nor does it suggest that it did not. Prior to the first
   gazillionth of a second, science, is silent.

   
 BE>  For such an
 BE> hypothesis involves the false idea that time existed before the
 BE> beginning of the universe...

 Naaa; if yer gonna accept thje idea that `God dunnit' then
 it is no problem to assume that in some way God was/is
 apart from time which involves matter does it not? God
 then is postulated as non-corporial...
 
 BE>  This idea is false because it is
 BE> incompatible with the mathematical formalism in General
 BE> Relativity which was responsible for the development of the Big
 BE> Bang theory in the first place.

 General relativity and quantum theory are still banging heads
 WRT gravity...but that's off the point, there's enough bad science and bad
 theology for all....

 Cheers!



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